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Week Four was a tad bit like Week Two, in that it wasn’t loaded like Weeks One and Three.

There were only a handful of substantive matchups: Wisconsin-Michigan State, Stanford-UCLA, Florida-Tennessee, Texas A&M-Arkansas and, to a lesser extent, Oklahoma State-Baylor and Georgia-Mississippi.

But in general, we didn’t gain a great deal of insight. And in this case, at least, I didn’t make major changes to the ballot.

A few highlights …

*** Ohio State was idle but remained on top because I could find no team that deserved to displace the Buckeyes. Louisville retained the No. 2 spot and Alabama the No. 3 after each dispatched creampuffs.

I didn’t give that victory more weight for the badgers, however, because of the result from South Bend, where Notre Dame lost to Duke — Duke! — and thereby undermined the significance of MSU’s win on the same field last week.

Stanford jumped five spots, to No. 7, after collecting its first quality win of the season, at UCLA.

(No, I’m not counting USC as a quality win for the Cardinal. And I’d guess that anyone who has watched the utter mess that is the Trojans would agree with my assessment.)

*** Michigan (No. 8) and Clemson (No. 9) will undoubtedly be several spots below their placement in the AP poll.

My reasoning is fairly simple: Neither team has a resume worthy of a higher slot — every team ranked above them has a better win, or a better combination of wins.

(And if you’re wondering about the reason for the picture above: Just because …)

*** I moved Colorado onto the ballot … take a minute to digest that … after the Buffs won in Eugene with a backup quarterback, which says plenty about CU’s rise but also about Oregon’s fall.

Colorado’s best result, one could argue, is a loss: The Buffs were down three points late in the third quarter in Ann Arbor.

*** You’ll notice I have two two-loss teams on the ballot: UCLA and Mississippi. In both cases, the losses are to top-10-caliber teams (Alabama, Florida State, Texas A&M and Stanford).

By my way of thinking, losing to top-10 teams doesn’t make you unworthy of a spot on the ballot.

*** Here’s episode 2 of the College Hotline podcast, with guest Chris ‘Rankman’ Dufresne, former national columnist for the L.A. Times and co-founder of TMGcollegesports.com. We addressed the SEC as a destination for homeless quarterbacks, Big 12 expansion chaos and several Pac-12 topics, including a deep dive into USC’s football woes and the university’s misguided approach to hiring.